Filmmaker Michael Moore says Trump will 'get us all killed'

Michael Moore poses for a portrait at the site of his one-man Broadway show at the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, New York, US, August 17, 2017. Reuters

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is trading screen time for the stage in a one-man show now on Broadway that is a call to action over the current state of US politics.

The show, "The Terms of My
Surrender," uses Moore's satirical brand of humour to target US President
Donald Trump and encourage liberals to turn resentment over Trump and the
Republican political agenda into actual resistance.

"This guy's going to get us all
killed. There's nobody in charge. This man (Trump) has the nuclear codes,"
Moore, 63, told Reuters Television in an interview on Thursday.

"I'm hoping somebody in the Pentagon
is protecting us. Like, whatever's in that nuclear briefcase it's just some
girlfriend's phone number or something. I'm just hoping that it's not the real
numbers because we're in desperate shape here," said Moore, a longtime
liberal and a harsh critic of Trump.

Moore's show varies each night. On Tuesday,
he invited the audience to board buses and join him after the performance in a
wider protest under way outside Trump Tower on nearby Fifth Avenue in
Manhattan, where the president had arrived a day earlier to stay at his
high-rise home for the first time since taking office in January.

Moore, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his gun violence documentary "Bowling
for Columbine," said he had always wanted to bring the ideas from his
films to a live theatre audience.

"By the end of this run, 100,000
people would have seen the show. And each of them will tell 10 people things I
said or did here tonight. That's a million people I've reached through a
Broadway show," he said.

Moore said that far from being depressed by
the actions of Trump and events in Washington in the two weeks since starting
the show, he has drawn strength from his appearances.

"Every night, when I leave here, I
feel like my soul has been healed a little, that I have less despair, that I'm
a little bit more hopeful that we're going to figure this out," he said.

"The Terms of My Surrender" is
scheduled to run at the Belasco Theatre in New York until Oct 22.